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Kirby House B&B promo 1994

Oral History
Two-minute Grand Rapids WOOD-TV Channel 8 news segment with Marsha Kontio telling the history of the Kirby House and its reinvention as a Bed and Breakfast. The house is decked out for the Christmas holidays. The segment aired December 19, 1994. Content from a Lakewood Photo disc found in collection, transferred to mp4 format in 2025, no VHS version.
Kirby House B&B promo 1994 picture number 1

2024.41.338

Documentation of one of the many lives of the Kirby house.

1930+ Tourism, lodging, hotels and B&Bs

Winthers, Sally

2024.41

Found in Collection

To view this recording, scroll down to the bottom of this entry and click the blue web link. This video was created by Saugatuck-Douglas History Center volunteers or was donated to the Center in a good faith effort to preserve local history. If you feel this content should not be available to the public — or have additional information that will add context to this interview — please contact the SDHC Archives at [email protected].

Kontio, Marsha

Dec 1994

2

DVD version

5 in

5 in

AWS/VidArch SSD/DVD originals

Kirby House/Community Hospital before 1960Kontio, MarshaKirby, Sarah M. (Gill) 1861-1951Kirby, Lois Faith 1884-1970

https://sdhc-collections.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/videos/317-KirbyHouseSegmentChannel8-1994.mp4

08/30/2025

08/30/2025